2018 Anthology Contents For Overseas Adult Poems

Today, we are pleased to reveal the poems that have been included in the 2018 Selected Poems Anthology for Overseas adult entries.

We had hundreds and hundreds of entries for this category this year and the Anthology selection is based on the original "long list" that we used for judging purposes.

Everybody listed here can buy copies of the Anthology at a special reduced rate – please select the correct option of postage and packing to where you live on the dropdown menu.

You can also buy the Anthology via Amazon by clicking on the links at the right of the page but that costs more and is aimed at the general public rather than competition entrants.

(Note: Prize winners should NOT use this order link as they will receive an email shortly with separate information.)

To order copies, simply click on the "add to cart" link here and you can add extra copies in the cart view later:

Single Copy Order Overseas

1 copy inc EU std airmail £8.85 GBP 1 copy inc EU tracked and signed for £13.35 GBP 1 copy US/Can/Aus/Row standard airmail £10.15 GBP 1 copy inc US/Can/Aus/Row tracked and signed £14.65 GBP

OVERSEAS ADULT POEMS INCLUDED IN 2018 ANTHOLOGY: 　

Sister Bullwinkle - Paula Miles, Australia
Those Boys - Teresa Hall, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
Cesspool Your Name is War - Faleeha Hassan, New Jersey, USA
Indo-Pak Border - FABIYAS M V - KERALA STATE, INDIA
No Doctor To Cry – Jerusha Hackworth - New South Wales, Australia
Far Back In The Dark - Ogunlade John Oluwaseyi, Lagos, Nigeria
Hiroshima n Nagasaki – Seventy+ Years Since 1945 - Matthew Harris - Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
MOTHER EARTH - Cecilia Mallon – Ontario, Canada
WHEN DID WE LAST LIVE? - Yamberzal – Bahrain
Shell Shock Parasite – Gregory Fino, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bantering with the Dead Soul - Harshita Lall – Dallas, Texas, USA
SYRIAN DESERT– 2015 - Kevin Le Merle - Paris, France.
Memorials - John Seriot - Aurland, Norway.
HEADSPACE – Emily Dentler - Bad Homburg, Germany
Battle of Bloodriver - Jandrie van Staden ,Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Never Again - Heather McNair – Auckland, New Zealand
BALLAD OF DEMOKRATIA – Pukhraj Neogi - Lucknow, U. P., India
AMBER - Stephen J. Cribari, Minnesota, USA
"Napalm Girl" with Boy - Frank Joussen - Germany
THE CRY OF WOMEN - Temani Nkalolang - Gaborone, Botswana
An Unknown Soldier? – Paul Barrett – Mystic Park, Victoria, Australia
SPLASH AND SILENCE - Kofie Jerry Atta - Ghana
The Silent VC - Jamie Pinnock - Colgne, Germany
HMS REPULSE & HMS PRINCE OF WALES - Jeremy Gadd – Sydney, Australia
Barrow - Julian Aiken – Connecticut, USA
The Martyr’s Shrine - Swati Jha - Pune, India
WAITING - Frank Murdoch, Lamma Island, Hong Kong
Lament for Aleppo - Anne Casey – Northbridge, NSW, Australia
Dissociations Of Thirty Three Degrees - Marcelo Moreira – Salvador, Brazil
To Survive Soul - Milos Simic – Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia
''The trajectory of fingerprints in blood'' - Cristiane Vieira de Farias - São Paulo, Brazil
Rot - Rhiannon Brönnimann - Brussels, Belgium
Where in Hell is God Now? - Henry Spencer - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
The Theatre Of War - D.P.G. Sheridan – Gdansk, Poland
a soldier’s legacy - Nico Volkerts – Texel, Netherlands
Breaking Glass - Richard W. Halperin – Paris, France
THE SANDS OF TIME - Dave Pugh – Burgundy, France
Channel One - Richard Hookway - Banpong, Thailand
War is but an Engagement where Good People die… - Clint Hirschfield - Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin. USA
Rush Hour - Shirani Rajapakse – Maharagama, Sri Lanka
Joy At The Front - Joyce Orsini – Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy

2018 Results - Overseas Adults Poems

Today – at long last - we are pleased to announce the winning entries in the Overseas Adult Poems category of the competition.
The First Prize goes to the poem " WAITING" by Frank Murdoch of Lamma Island, Hong Kong

2nd Prize goes to "Barrow" by Julian Aiken from Connecticut, USA

and 3rd Prize goes to "AMBER" by Stephen J. Cribari from Minnesota, USA

There is also a Highly Commended award for "Where in Hell is God Now?" By Henry Spencer of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.


The winning poem is reproduced here and all four poems are included in the Overseas anthology.

The prize winners will each receive a competition certificate and free copy of the anthology. There is an option to order extra copies of the book at a greatly reduced price for prize winners and also for everybody whose submissions are included - and details of how to order copies can be found HERE

Tomorrow we will be listing the other poems that are included in the Overseas Adults section of the Anthology – and that will that for this year’s competition!

2018 Anthology Contents for UK & Ireland Adults Entries

Today, we are pleased to reveal the poems that have been included in the 2018 Selected Poems Anthology for United Kingdom & Ireland adult entries.

We had hundreds and hundreds of entries for this category this year and the Anthology selection is based on the original "long list" that we used for judging purposes.

Eveybody listed here can buy copies of the Anthology at a special reduced rate – with free postage to UK and Ireland addresses.

You can also buy the Anthology via Amazon by clicking on the links at the right of the page but that costs more and is aimed at the general public rather than competition entrants.

(Note: Prize winners should NOT use this order link as they will receive an email shortly with separate information.)

To order copies, simply click on the "add to cart" link here and you can add extra copies in the cart view later:

　


Full Contents: 2018 Selected Poems Anthology for United Kingdom & Ireland adult entries.

Poems:

A MOTHERS WAR - Lesley Spray, Ulverston, Cumbria
WEEP GENTLY MY SON - Sue Gerrard, St. Helens, Merseyside
Normandy 44 - Phil Pead, Rainham, Kent

"Pound of minced meat" part I - Richard C Wright, Birmingham

HOME FROM THE WAR, THE WARRIOR - Tina Morris, Lancashire
Tommy - Teresa Harrison-Best, Worthing, West Sussex

WINTER COMES - Tom Robason, Sunderland

The Recruiting Sergeant. - Kenny Moore,

And the beat went on. (Pantoum) - Stephen Pennell, Crewe, Cheshire
Pendle’s unseen war - Andrew Collinson, Sabden, Lancashire

SEPTEMBER 1939 - Isobel Thrilling, Skipton, Yorkshire

Mrs Owens Sunday Walk - Jean Maskell, Wirral

TO DIE A WARRIORS DEATH - Tony Andrews, Ashton Under Lyme
END HOUSE - Philip Burton, Bacup, Lancashire
Bullring Bairns - Nathan Ritchie, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

The Weather Forecast - Ian Colville,

Dressed to Kill - Diane Schofield, Dumfries & Galloway.
Unknown Soldier - John Black, Dungannon, Northern Ireland

"ignorance" - Chris Ainsworth, Rossendale

Physician Of The Soul - Barry Carter, Hull

Separated - K.E.N (Ken Ehud Nakamura), Epsom, Surry

White Feather - Tom Allport
The Last Drop - Dan Crocker, Burnley
The Return to Thankful - Greta Ross, Canterbury, Kent

NO BLITZ IN CIVVIES - Sandra Moran, Windsor, Berks

The Station - Andy West,
War in Mind - Hazel Andrews, Saltney, North Wales
Passchendaele - Andy Taylor, Exeter
The Mind Games! – Indu, Milton Keynes

The Elmingham Stony Village Band - Brian Charlton, Milton Keynes

Our Dearest England - Paul Crump, Newport, South Wales
Mrs Owen – Remembrance - Miriam Clare, Brighton, Sussex,

Spoils of War Tracy Davidson, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
A View - John Newton - Perth, Scotland
Bayeux - Julian Bishop, North London
The Tick - Lee Mackenzie - Bramley, Guildford
Dover Calls - Andy Eycott, London
To the Death - Linda Burnett, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Heroes Speak Quietly - Lisa Lopresti, Ashton, Bristol
A War For What? - John Adams, Weymouth, Dorset.

Daffodil - Brigid Foley, Newport, Gwent
Sarajevo - Oliver James, Isle of Wight.

An Ignorant Man - Andrew Harper, Huddersfield

Under the Storm - Sara Davis, Tonbridge, Kent

Enemy Lines - Tasmin Talbot, West Bromwich, West Midlands

Entrenched Thinking - Richard Vidal, Epsom

The Dirtiest Trick - Alun Robert, Kent
Martyrs Bay - Heather Combe, Slough, Bucks
Ode to Autumn - Al McClimens
Caught in the Cross fire - Jenny Palmer, Twiston, East Lancs
Watchman - Thomas Moody, Ovington, Northumberland

Death Writes an Open Letter - Luigi Coppola, Sidcup, Kent
Running water at El Aghir - Dominic James, Chalford, Glos

THE LAST SOLDIER - Joyce Walker - Borehamwood, Herts
THE IRON NECKLACE - Derek Sellen, Canterbury
Fegefeur I - Steve Kettle - Llanelli, South Wales
The Ministry Of Offence - Graeme Darling - Jedburgh, Roxburghshire,
War Broke on Tongues - Ann Flynn - Kings Heath, Birmingham

First Day of the Somme - Nigel Smith - Guiseley, Leeds
HEROES' WELCOME - Steven Taylor - Kilburn, London
Hardcore - Stephen W Tucker – Clitheroe
BROTHERS IN ARMS - Robert Woollacott - Milton Keynes

Crossing Swords - Rebecca Schofield - Blackburn

ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN NINETEEN-EIGHTEEN - John Notley - London
Pawn - Colin Dardis - Belfast
War Game - Mantz Yorke - Manchester

WAR POEM - Razeena Kramer - London

LIONS LED BY DONKEYS - Michael Bamber - Chorley, Lancashire
At Guillemont Wood (1917) - George W Colkitto - Paisley, Renfrewshire

Meeting The Lancaster - Alan Bryant - Swansea
The Fight- The Ganges Teacher - Warrington
From Benin to Belfast - Gaynor Kane - Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Fight - Emily Kelly - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
' Not Forgotten ' - Allistair Kitson - Antrim, Northern Ireland
In a Gentle Way You Can Shake the World - Roddy Scott - Paisley, Scotland.
Valhalla II - Mark Sheeky - Crewe, Cheshire

BATTLEFIELD OF DISPAIR - Mick Connolley



The Keloid Girls - Jane Burn - Consett, County Durham,
THE LAST - Merryn Williams - Oxford
The many uses of stones - John Ling - Huddersfield

Silent Graves - Danielle Wootton - Weymouth, Dorset.
WAIT AND SEE - Janette Wootton – Gloucestershire

There Are No - Stephen Sells - Hertfordshire

The Other War - Cathy Bryant – Disley, Cheshire
Ellen - Harry Gallagher - Tyne & Wear

Monday - Maggie Mackay - Dunfermline

Liberté - Des Childs - Lichfield

Cadillacs Passing - Myrtle V - Buckhurst Hill, Essex

What Blood Do We Bleed - Aminatta Kamara – Moulsham, Chelmsford
He’s Coming Home To Us - Hanna Anaz - Beeston, Nottinghamshire

No one fires. It’s tremendous.- Lynda McDonald - Edinburgh

Kaiser Wilhelm - Phil Santus - Southampton

Shoot the Projectionist - Katy McGahan
Cannon Fodder - Winter Selby - Llanelli

Strength - Rem Wilson - London

Poppies - Angi Holden - Winsford, Cheshire.
St. Paul’s Tube Station - Diane Jackman - Diss, Norfolk

Remembering Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) the Poet of WWII - Andrew Davies - London

A Field Of Red Poppies - Tania Jackson – Bury, Lancashire

Lament Glasgow 1943 - Finola Scott - Glasgow
Stop..Start.. - Morna Sullivan - Co. Antrim, N Ireland

Maisons tolérées - Jessie Summerhayes – Matlock, Derbyshire,
Repatriate - Gill Lambert – Keighley, Yorkshire

206 Coffins - Linda Cosgriff - Stockport, Cheshire

HEARING A PIN DROP - Tim Cunningham - Billericay, Essex

Cat on a Wall - John Stiles, LONDON
Dispatches - Mike Lee - Wellingborough
Korean War Photograph, 28 August 1950, by Al Chang - Gene Groves – Morpeth, Northumberland
Education - Karen Ankers - Anglesey

Remembrance - Brenda Read-Brown – Tewksbury, Gloucestershire

War Flowers - Annabelle Fuller, Yorkshire

Friend - Kate Wilson - Beckenham, Kent

Beyond Help - Pippa Little - Cramlington Village, Northumberland
Steep - Colin Bancroft - County Durham
Six Nights - Elena Croitoru – Welling, Bexley

To the Angel at Vimy Ridge - Elaine Speakman, Ramsbottom, Lancashire

An Arabian Night - Rosemary McLeish - Selling, Kent


War - Ryan Roberts - Dunstable, Bedfordshire

Growing Pains - Stuart A. Paterson - Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway
Modern Warfare - Alison Prendergast - Cork, Ireland.

A Heart-Shaped Wood - Philip Howard – Penwortham, Preston

SOMEONE'S BUSINESS - Giles Constable, London
Grotesqueness of Hell - Trace Elliott - Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Sacrifice - Kieron P. Baird – Avonbridge, Falkirk
TOO YOUNG TO DIE - Anna L. Thoburn - Clitheroe, Lancashire

What is left for us? - Barbara Eszter Utasi – Dublin, Ireland

Stepping forward, stepping back - Sarah Evans, Welwyn Garden City

The Unknown Soldier - Karen Anne Fentum

Generation At War - Alice Saunders – Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Details of the Fallen - David Van-Cauter – Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Outmarching Fears To Conquer Frontiers - Catherine Mullen – Radstock, Somerset
Armistice Day - Jane Fuller - Port Logan, Wigtownshire
Rania’s Story - Angela Bailey - Leicester.
Where dost Thy Father Lay? - Beverley Mulvanerty - Lewes, East Sussex

The Trumpian Scholar - Leanne Spencer, Croydon
Cap Badge (Silver Horse) - Kathryn Wharton - Baildon, West Yorkshire
STRANGE CROP - Alison McNulty – Clitheroe, Lancashire
When Will They Come Home? - Amber O’Connor - Kent.

Shell-hole by Moonlight - Clare Proctor – Kendal, Cumbria
Eating With The Dead - Graham Burchell - South Brent, Devon
Written on the Commemoration of 100 years since the start of the Gallipoli Campaign -Jane Hopwood - Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.
Old Man, Novi Banovei, Serbia, 1995 - Joan Michelson - Haringey, London

The Theatres Of War - Jim Bennett – Wirral, Merseyside
Lessons Unlearnt - Kelly Darkins – Stourport, Worcestershire

A Letter I Wish I Had Sent You - Destiny Adeyemi - Lambeth, London

War In Our Streets - Miriam Long - London
Glint - Jack Houston

War On The Shore - Maggie Davison - Hexham, Northumberland
‘The First and the Last’ - Steven Jackson - Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

Eclipse - Egbuka izuchukwu (John)

Marathon - Ruth Aylett - Edinburgh
War Never Made Anything More Beautiful - Nick Allen - Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Friday March 15^th 1918 - Graham Jones - North Walsham, Norfolk

July 1st 1916 - Neil Smith
"Walt Died of Wounds – " - Tabi Joy - Cheltenham
REDACTED - Isabel White, late of Higher Standen, below Pendle

Photos:

"Broken Hands" by Jane Crossen of Sheringham, Norfolk.
"WW2 Spitfire" by Charlie Wood of Birkenhead

"Arras Memorial" by Angela & Clive Eggleton

and "Visit To The Somme" by Sandra Godfrey

2018 Results - United Kingdon & Ireland Adult Poems

Today we are pleased to announce the winning entries in the United Kingdom and Ireland Adult Poems category of the competition.

The First Prize goes to the poem "Passchendaele" by Andy Taylor from Exeter

2nd Prize goes to "At Guillemont Wood (1917)" - George W Colkitto of Paisley, Renfrewshire

and 3rd Prize goes to "Redacted (Alternative Telegrams from the front)" - Isabel White

There are also Highly Commended awards for

"End House" by Philip Burton of Bacup, Lancs

and "The First and the Last" by Steven Jackson of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

The winning poem is reproduced here and all five poems are included in the United Kingdom and Ireland Adult anthology.

The prize winners listed above will each receive a competition certificate and free copy of the anthology. There is an option to order extra copies of the book at a greatly reduced price for prize winners and also for everybody whose submissions are included - and details of how to order copies will be announced shortly.

We had such a large number of entries this year that we have included a larger number than usual of them in this year’s Adult anthology. That list will be released tomorrow as it will take a little time to prepare - so please bear with us.

The winners of the Overseas Adult Poems Category will follow after that – so do please check back!

2018 Results - United Kingdom & Ireland Under 18 Poems

Today – admittedly after some delay for which we sincerely apologise, we are pleased to announce the winning entries in the United Kingdom and Ireland Under-18 Poems category of the competition.

The First Prize goes to the poem "What’s The Point Of War?" by Bobby Dowling from Co Wicklow, Ireland

2nd Prize goes to "Hidden And Waiting" by Kaartika Chitturi from Northamptonshire


and 3rd Prize goes to "Under the Blanket of Summer" - A group poem written by Boyce class, Year 6, Mayflower Primary School. Written to commemorate the bombing of Upper North Street School, Poplar.


There is also a Highly Commended award for "Waiting In The Trenches" by Joel Butler of Woking, Surrey

The winning poem is reproduced here and all four poems are included in the Under 18s and Overseas anthology, along with a further selection which are listed at the bottom of this post.



The prize winners listed above will each receive a competition certificate and free copy of the anthology. There is an option to order extra copies of the book at a greatly reduced price for prize winners and also for everybody whose submissions are included - and details of how to order copies will be announced shortly.

Tomorrow we will be announcing the winners of the UK & Ireland Adult Poems Category – so do please check back!

　


Also included in the Selected Poems 2018 – Under 18 and Overseas Entries Anthology:


Soldier Saviours - Mary Williams – South Cave, East Yorkshire.

Public Health Warning Needed - Sohail Mirza, Halifax, Yorkshire

Number 119 - Natasha Syed , London
Echoes - Luke Brand, Chingford, London
Life in the Trenches - Patrick Tallentire

The Forgotten Soldier - Esme Smith, Liverpool
Oh Where To Start - Ben Jordan, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot

Enweghi Udo, No Peace - Antonia Cheema-Grubb, Putney, London.
We Remember The Pain - A Morely, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot
Tunnels - Joshua Granville-Hamshar, Wimbledon, London
You Fought For Our Country - Sofia Khudenko, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot

The Sky Was Grey - Faith James, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot

The Alarm On Their Faces - Oliver Williams, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy , Aldershot

The ones who sacrificed their lives for us - Charlie Owens, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot

Thank You To The Men - Laura Firpo, St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot
A Dog’s Tale of War - Natalia Immordino, London

Gunshots Vibrated Through The Air - Amber McIver, London

Poppies - Tegan Owen, Pontyclun, South Wales
War Itself - Elena Armstrong, Nottinghamshire
Fallen - Jessica King, Guildford, Surrey
Each Day Begins - Meera Gosalia, Pinner, London
Oblivion of Life - Oscar Sheehan, Eastwood

She is the God of war - Rosie Cooke, Stroud, Gloucestershire

From a selection of letters written by children at St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Aldershot, to a WW1 soldier immortalised on a war memorial:

Dear fellow Soldier - Isabelle Cluskey

Dear Troy - Hector Lawrence

Dear fellow soldier,- Oscar Trigo

Dear Soldier, - Theo Emett



　

　

　

　

　

Apologies - Results Delayed!

We have to sincerely apologise – we will not be able to announce the results of the UK & Ireland Under 18 category today as planned.

We are involved in the centenary commemorations for the death of WW1 poet Wilfred Owen who was killed in action 100 years ago today at Ours in Northern France. This is going to take longer than we expected so we will not able to publish the U18 results until tomorrow – Monday.

The results for the Adult categories will follow that. As it happens, the judges are in deadlock over the results for the Adult section so we are not in a position to announce those any sooner anyway. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

2018 Results - Overseas Under 18 Entries

Today we are pleased to announce the winning entries in the Overseas Under-18 Poems category of the competition.

The First Prize goes to the poem "Only If I Could Come Back" by Shreenabh Agrawal of Nagpur, India

2nd Prize goes to "A Message From Heaven" by Tara Stankovic of Belgrade, SERBIA

and 3rd Prize goes to "Bipolar" by Swarnila of Dhaka, Bangladesh

There is also a Highly Commended award for "Fire and Snow" sent in by Ashma Pandya of New Delhi, India

The winning poem is reproduced here below and all four poems are included in the Overseas anthology.



The prize winners will each receive a competition certificate and free copy of the anthology. There is an option to order extra copies of the book at a greatly reduced price for prize winners and also for everybody whose submissions are included - and details of how to order copies will be announced shortly.

Tomorrow we will be announcing the winners of the UK & Ireland Under 18 Poems Category – so do please check back!